Made by a Filipino, for anyone learning

The Tagalog app
that explains why

Tarsier teaches the roots, the affixes, and the Taglish people really speak. The parts that make it finally click, whether you have heard it your whole life or none of it.

Download on iOS

Free to start. No account needed.

4.6 from 62 ratings
A Tarsier sheet on calling someone kuya or ate, with examples you can tap to hear
340+
Lessons
6,100+
Quiz cards
440+
Words to learn
3,300+
Words and phrases you can hear

Not another flashcard app

Most apps hand you a pile of words to memorise. Tarsier teaches you the machine underneath, so new words explain themselves.

Roots and affixes

Every word is colour coded into its prefix, root and suffix. Learn one pattern and a hundred words open up at once. This is the thing no other Tagalog app teaches.

The root luto branching into nagluto, magluluto and lutuin, each affix picked out in gold

Culture from lesson one

It starts with and , because respect comes before grammar. You learn why a stranger at the market is kuya and why every elder is lola, right alongside the words.

Lola asks Kumusta ka, and the respectful answer mabuti po ako is marked correct
A sheet explaining that any older Filipino calls someone much younger anak, family or not

One root. A whole conversation.

This is the part other Tagalog apps skip, and it is the reason the language never clicked for you.

means cooked.
Change the prefix and you change the time, the focus, the whole sentence.

Everything else, dialled in

The daily loop is built to be worth opening.
Learn, review, keep the streak, watch the map fill in.

The Tagalog 2.0 learn map, a winding path of completed units with a milestone medal

A map, not a list

144 short lessons along a single winding path. Finish a unit, earn its medal, and the next one opens.

The word page for kahel, with its image, meaning, an example on word tiles you can tap, and audio

Every word has its own page

Your own dictionary of 440+ words, filled in as you learn them, with examples, images and audio on every page.

The word page for kain with a Listen button, each word of its example on a tile you can tap, and the whole sentence on one

Hear every single word

3,000+ Tagalog recordings built into the app, so every word and sentence has a voice, even offline.

An image match quiz asking which picture is a jeepney, beside a taxi, a bus and a train

Quizzes that keep moving

Image matches, chat replies, sentence building and memory recall, mixed so no two cards in a row feel the same.

A quiz answered correctly, with the English meaning of each choice shown only after checking

Recall first, then check

English stays hidden until you answer, so you're recalling, not reading. Need a hand? Turn on hints and it stays visible.

The Practice hub with weak words to review

Practice what you got wrong

The words you keep missing come back on their own. Build a custom session, or take whatever the app thinks you owe it.

A 64 day streak with the activity calendar filled in

Streaks worth protecting

A daily goal you set yourself, a streak that survives a busy day, and reminders in Tagalog with the English underneath.

The ube counter reading 30 during a lesson

instead of hearts

Your energy is , and it refills through the day. Free learners get a full plate every morning. Super Tarsier never runs out.

The all-time leaderboard with your row highlighted

Leaderboard and handles

Claim an @handle, climb the weekly and all time boards, and see your row jump when you overtake someone.

The Pace insight predicting when you will finish the unit you are on

Insights that predict

Pace, time, accuracy and vocabulary. Keep going at your pace and it tells you the day you'll finish this unit.

The Profile tab with the Tarsier ID card, the current course and learning stats

Backed up, free

Your progress saves to iCloud automatically and follows you to a new phone. Sign in with Apple if you want it tied to an account.

Full dark mode Works offline Placement test, skip ahead Grammar & culture sheets Milestone review lessons Pick your Tarso avatar Daily spin Every line checked by a native speaker Cebuano and Ilocano next

Learners like you love Tarsier

LaurieSolkoski 🇨🇦

Never being embarrassed at a Filipino party ever again

All my titas and titos are going to be so proud of me, and I can finally eavesdrop on my cousins talking smack

jtkopp1989 🇨🇦

Yup

Seems to be a good app with perfect step by step instructions

Mosh._.maxou 🇨🇦

I've been trying to learn Tagalog on other apps but none compared to this one. I love it so much

💀😔😌 🇨🇦

i learnt something 🤯

i finally understand the difference between 'mo' and 'ko' now. thank you tarsier🔥

shadowmax1 🇨🇦

Fun and user friendly!

I have very limited to no knowledge speaking Tagalog. This is a fun interactive app to help me learn and get into the habit of speaking Tagalog.

Lala boring 🇺🇸

Great learning

It has help me a lot on my first day thank you

, I'm

/ˈɡɑːθriɪn/ · tap my name to hear it

I grew up speaking Tagalog at home and watched friends and cousins understand everything and say almost nothing. Every app I pointed them at taught colours and numbers and never explained why turns into . That gap is the whole language, so I built the app I wanted them to have.

Gathrean Dela Cruz Gathrean Dela Cruz Tarsier's Founder and Developer gathrean.com
Tarso the tarsier Tarso Your guide
Coming to Android

Android is next. Want it first?

Tarsier is iPhone only today. Android is the most requested thing we get asked for, and it is in planning now. Leave your email and you will get one message the day it lands.

One email at launch. No newsletter, no sharing your address.

Start with and .
End up talking to your .

Free to start, no account needed, and the first lesson takes about three minutes.

Download on iOS